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The discovery of plane debris washed up on a remote island in the southern Indian Ocean has rekindled efforts by family members of passengers on board a missing Malaysia Airlines flight to seek greater compensation, aviation lawyers said.

A national centre to tackle human trafficking and provide temporary shelter for victims could be open in Bahrain by the end of this year.
The Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) is spearheading the initiative in partnership

A train carrying the remains of some of the nearly 300 victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane downed over Ukraine was heading for Ukrainian government territory on Tuesday as a separatist leader handed over the plane's black boxes to Malaysi

Bahrain has issued a set of guidelines for government bodies to help victims of human trafficking.
The 400-page manual was compiled by the Social Development Ministry and distributed to law enforcement agencies, the Public Prosecu

Three young women newly freed from a decade-long kidnapping ordeal in Cleveland endured their captivity in the dungeon-like squalid confines of a house, where they were raped, starved, beaten and kept in chains by the man who abducted them, auth

Two Western retailers have promised to compensate families of garment workers killed while making their clothes in a Bangladesh factory building that collapsed last week in the country's worst industrial accident.
The pledge f

Around 50 customers have lodged a formal police complaint against the owner of a jewellery firm in Gold City, Manama, after fears that they would lose the money that they invested in a gold scheme.
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China offered to pay compensation to the families of the civilians it says died in violence in the Tibetan capital this month, as Beijing kept up an intense propaganda campaign in the wake of the unrest.
Pressure grew from abroad for China

A database of human trafficking victims in Bahrain will be launched with the support of the United Nations (UN), it was revealed.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), in collaboration with ministries and other stakeholders,